The Business Times, 25 January 2006

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 85 cents online at .com^g MICA (P) 069/03/2005 Wednesday, January 25,2006
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  • 523 1 Thai exchange asks brokers for information on all trades involving counter Reuters AFP [BANGKOK] The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is investigating possible insider trading in Shin Corp shares, which surged 25 per cent in the weeks before Monday's announcement that Singapore's Temasek Holdings
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  • 136 1 sn 2,368.32 (+3.35) ST INDEX FUTURES 2369.00 (+4.00) SIMSCI 280.33 (+0.17) SIMSO FUTURES 280.90 (+1.30) MARKETS Tuesday Chang* KLSECOMP 906.98 +4.47 NIKKEI 225 15,648.89 +288.24 HANG SENG 15.530.57 +65.80 SET INDEX 745.95 -4.33 JAKARTA COMP 1.207.22 +7,09 MANILA COMP 2,103.37 +3,86 SEOUL COMP 1,326.83 +29.40 SHENZHEN B 245.01
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  • 63 1 ST Engineering CEO Tan Pheng Hock (left) congratulating his Neptune Orient Lines counterpart, David Lim. last night. NOL has once again emerged tops in the Singapore International 100 rankings that honour local companiesfor their ability to generate revenue from abroad. Asean remains S'pore's hinterland,
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  • 538 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING [SINGAPORE] The Economic Development £oard said yesterday there will be no letup in its efforts to grow Singapore's electronics industry, even as it moves to diversify the country's manufacturing base. Although it has been written off by some
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 465 2  -  By MATTHEW PHAN [SINGAPORE] This year's Singapore International 100 results reaffirm the importance of Asean as Singapore's economic hinterland, Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar said at the SI 100 gala dinner last night. South-east Asia accounted for the largest proportion of the overseas revenue of
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    • 613 2  -  Livedoor affair may damage reformist images of Koizumi, say analysts By ANTHONY ROWLEY in Tokyo THE Tokyo stock market yesterday bounced back from a crash for the second time in two weeks as Monday's arrest of Livedoor Internet empire president Takafumi Horie
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    • 502 2 Bloomberg (NEW DELHI] India is not planning another bidding round for the country's busiest airports, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel told reporters here yesterday. He said a panel of ministers has completed discussions on the stake sale in the Mumbai and New Delhi
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    • 525 2 AIS shares sink to 96 baht before recovering ground THE share price of Advanced Info Service—Temasek's latest crown jewel sank in heavy trade yesterday after the Singapore investment company indicated that its offer price is not based on market price but on fundamental value. At one point, the
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    • 597 3  -  SHIN CORP DEAL Volume hits almost three times the six-month daily average By SIOW LI SEN [SINGAPORE] The share price of Advanced Info Service (AIS) Temasek's latest crown jewel sank in heavy trade yesterday after the Singapore investment company indicated that its
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    • 587 3  -  COMMENTARY By VEN SREENIVASAN CAN Temasek Holdings and Air Asia make a go of their new partnership at Thai Air Asia? That's the question some observers are asking after the Singapore investment company's deal to buy Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family's
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    • 758 3  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By SIOW LI SEN THKRK was barely a ripple from Singapore Telecommunications yesterday following the entry of parent Temasek as new controlling shareholder in Advanced Info Services (AIS) in Thailand's largest takeover. In fact, Sing Tel ended one cent down to $2.47,
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    • 484 3 AFP IBANGKOK] Temasek's takeover of Shin Corp, the telecom giant founded by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, marked the latest move by foreign firms to tap the still growing Thai market for mobile phones, analysts said yesterday. Mr Thaksin's family on Monday sold its
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 516 4  -  Pramerica Asia fund said to be buyer, paying about $175 million By KALPANA RASHIWALA THR Ascott Group, which last week announced plans to launch a service residences trust, is said to be close to selling Liang Court Shopping Centre for about $175
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    • 255 4 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] SP AusNet, an Australian power and gas distributor, may partner its 51 per cent owner Singapore Power Ltd in acquisitions outside its primary markets of Australia and New Zealand, managing director Nino Ficca said. Any acquisition would need to be a
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    • 481 4  -  Refinery upgrade to produce clean fuels will start soon By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE Refining Company (SRC) which is about to start a major upgrading project at its Jurong Island refinery has a new man at the helm. But James Er, who has taken
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    • 470 6  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Results boosted partly by higher MRT ridership and fares in the quarter By SAMUEL EE SMRT Corp's third-quarter profit rose 25.8 per cent to $30 million, as the public transport operator's revenue rose 5.2 per cent to $179.1 million.
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    • 352 6  -  By LEE KIM SIANG KEPPEL Telecommunications and Transportation, which designs and upgrades cable networks, posted a 6.5 per cent rise in net profit to $38.96 million for its financial year ended Dec 31, 2005. The rise in profit attributable to shareholders
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    • 242 6  -  Net profit falls 21.1% to HK$27.67m By UMA SHANKARI PRICE competition and higher material costs hit Sunway International Holdings' gross margin for its full year ended Sept 30, 2005. This resulted in the Hong Kong-based maker of electronic consumables and components suffering a 21.1 per
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    • 441 6  -  Up on high rents, strong occupancy, portfolio increase By ALEXANDRA HO THANKS to higher rents, stronger occupancy rates and an increase in its portfolio size, Singapore-listed Fortune Real Estate Investment Trust's income distribution to unit holders shot up 69.8 per cent year-on-year for
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    • 308 6  -  By CONRAD TAN DBS Bank has teamed up with French credit insurance firm Coface.to offer an online credit-checking service to help small businesses here assess the credit risk of potential overseas trading partners. The web-based platform will provide subscribers with regularly updated credit
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    • 460 6  -  By ARTHUR SIM ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) has turned developer, and will build two warehouse retail facilities costing up to $128 million. It is understood that this will be a first for a Singapore Reit. Reits are not restricted from developing properties but
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    • 438 6  -  It hopes to raise $19.1 m through mainboard listing By CONRAD TAN CHINA Essence Group, which makes potato starch, is seeking to raise some $19.1 million in net proceeds through a mainboard listing on the Singapore Exchange. In a statement yesterday, the China company said it
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 38 6 INTEGRA2000 Ltd expects to report a significant loss for its full year ended Dec 31, 2005. In its profit warning yesterday, it said this was mainly due to losses from IDEX Global Services, Inc.
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      • 28 6 DEEP-SEA industrial fishing specialist, China Fishery Group, yesterday said its initial public offering was 1.54 times subscribed. Trading of its shares starts today.
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      • 81 6 LEARNING services provider Informatics Holdings said yesterday that it believes that it has the grounds to challenge and refute a claim by Instituto Informatics Mexico (IMX), which is claiming compensatory damages from Informatics. Informatics added that its lawyers have formed the preliminary view that
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 890 8  -  CURRENCIES Chart patterns most bearish for US$/Swiss franc, NZ$/S$ and US$/S$ LARRY WEE Senior Correspondent SHARPLY higher oil prices torpedoed Wall Street big-time on Friday, wiping out all of the Dow's gains since mid-Novem-ber and effectively short-cir-cuiting any hopes for at least a
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    • 487 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI United Fiber issues 22.5 m new shares PAPER and pulp company United Fiber System (Unifiber) announced yesterday that it has issued 22.5 million new shares to its controlling shareholder Tektronix Industries. The new shares represent 1.14 per cent of Unifiber's enlarged share capitalUnifiber
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    • 246 8  -  Compiled by UMA SHANKARI WBLCorp Jan 24 dose: $535 KIM ENG RESEARCH, Jan 24 WBL CORP has announced plans to delist Wearnes International. The company has called for an extraordinary general meeting to put the proposal to a vote. With a 94.5 per cent stake, WBL Corp, which
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    • 349 8  -  CHART POINT By YEO KEE VAN, chartist at Kelive Research LAST week's trading activity can best be characterised as "volatile". The wild gyrations were the result of the Nikkei's 746-point drop on Jan 18 followed by Dow's 210-point tumble last Friday. The Straits Times
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      439 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 24 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -236.00 +19.00 BTCAPI -*****.00 +107.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -23.00 AH-SG Equities 610.25 +0.34 SG Equities Elect 120.61 +0.96 SG Equities Fin 1705.72 -1.10 SG Equities Prop 757.16 +1.64 SIMSCI 280.33 +0.17 SiMSCI Futures 280.90 +1.30 MOST ACTIVE STOCKS VOLUME Sky
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    • 382 8  -  STOCKS R SIVANITHY Senior Correspondent GIVEN the pall of uncertainty hanging over Wall Street and considering the predominance of intraday traders in daily proceedings, yesterday's session fell well within expectations short-covering first helped shore up the Straits Times Index, traders kept a close eye on
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 797 9 Trailing the iPod, its Zen and MuVo margins narrowed and prices fell Bloomberg CREATIVE Technology Ltd, fighting a losing battle with Apple Computer Inc's iPod, probably will report a slump in second-quarter profit as margins for its Zen and MuVo music
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    • 626 9 Lower than expected earnings on fall in ARPU Reuters [NEW DELHI/MUMBAI] Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, India's top mobile services firm which is 30.84 per cent owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, yesterday reported a lower-than-expected 25 per cent rise in its quarterly earnings as low-priced
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 736 10  -  Port devt and ship-repair two big areas in which expertise sought By CHEN HUIFEN, CONRAD RAJ SINGAPORE could get to play a pivotal role in the economic development of Qatar, which wants to emulate the island state's excellence. According to Minister Mentor
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    • 288 10  -  By UMA SHANKARI THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) yesterday said that it has reduced the price of dialysis at its centres by a further 7.4 per cent, buf added that it has tightened its guidelines for patient admission. The price patients must pay for
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    • 267 10  -  By RONNIE LIM IN response to the recent run-up in crude and product prices, petrol stations started raising diesel price again yesterday by another eight cents per litre, in the second similar-size increase in just slightly over two weeks. ExxonMobil, the biggest
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    • 498 10  -  By ALEXANDRA HO GET ready for another wave of Spanish invasion— fashion-wise, that is. Following in the flamenco steps of Spanish labels Zara and Mango, another brand, Massimo Dutti, has opened its chic doors at Liat Towers with a store spanning 10,000 square feet.
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    • 307 10  -  It cites infrastructure, strategic location By CONRAD RAJ DIAGEO, the world's largest producer of premium alcoholic drinks, yesterday opened its regional headquarters here to cover all of Asia, except greater China (which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan). John Pollaers, managing
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    • 363 10  -  By CHEN HUIFEN HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan may get to lead a group representation Constituency (GRC) in the next general election, going by what Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said during a media interview in Doha; Qatar, on Monday. When asked
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    • 190 10 THE revised Registers of Electors for the 23 Constituencies (14 Group Representation Constituencies and 9 Single Member Constituencies) are open for public inspection at the Elections Department and 104 Community Centres/Clubs (Inspection Centres) in Singapore, according to the Elections Department yesterday. The
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    • 245 10 NET allocation for JTC Corporation's ready-built facilities rose to a high last year. The 84-per-cent jump to 180,400 sq m was the highest in five years and second to the all-time peak in 2000. Net allocation of prepared industrial land
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  • IE FORUM 06
    • 492 11  -  It will fill gap left by lenders, venture capitalists and equity providers By MATTHEW PHAN ASSET-light, traditional SMEs will be the vehicles for a new enterprise fund announced yesterday at the International Enterprise Forum 2006. The fund has a target size of $100 million, and
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    • 232 11  -  BY MATTHEW PHAN IE Singapore's latest burst of effort to help companies go abroad includes an e-learning courseware to help exporters understand the international trade environment, MOUs with local chambers of commerce and a $100 million investment fund. Announced at the International Enterprise
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    • 337 11  -  By OH BOON PING WHILE India and China are emerging economic powerhouses, there is very little trade between the two, a conference was told yesterday. In fact only one per cent of India's total external trade in 2004 came from its vast northern neighbour. "Given
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    • 448 11  -  By OH BOON PING OUT of every 10 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in developed markets, only three end in success, a conference was told yesterday by Chris Brooks, Rothschild's Asia head of M&A. Companies which are on an
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 359 12 Global M&A deals surge 40% last year to US$2.9t, driven by equity boom Reuters [ZURICH] Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world's wealthiest nations shot up in 2005 and was more than double levels in developing nations in Asia, Latin America and Africa,
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    • 268 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The World Bank has cut its forecast for Indonesia's economic growth this year after investment and consumption slowed. South-east Asia's biggest economy may expand 5 per cent in 2006, the bank's country director Andrew Steer said. Washington-based World Bank had
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    • 403 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's central bank unexpectedly raised its key short-term interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 5.5 per cent yesterday, saying it wanted to curb inflation in the fast-growing economy. The central bank also raised its forecast for economic growth in
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    • 300 12 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's economic growth may slow to between 8.5 and 9 per cent this year on a decline in investment and weaker export growth, according to a survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics. The yuan may rise by a "moderate"
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 496 13  -  It aims to tighten rating standards to ensure greater price transparency By PAULINE NG in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA plans to establish bond pricing agencies and tighten credit rating standards to ensure greater price transparency in its domestic bond market, the government said yesterday. With the
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    • 416 13 AFP I KUALA LUMPURI Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday that the nation's growing current account surplus would increasingly see the country looking overseas for investment opportunities. Malaysia had run "per-sistently-large" current account surpluses since the 1997 Asian financial crisis,
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    • BRIEFLY ASIA
      • 91 13 AFP [TAIPHI 1 Taiwan has approved eight China-bound investment applications worth some US$226 million, the Investment Commission said. The commission also approved four inbound investment applications by foreign or overseas Chinese investors worth U*****.4 million, it said in a statement late yesterday. Meanwhile, mainland figures showed
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      • 71 13 Bloomberg IHONG KONGI Chinese companies are expected to more than double their overseas investments this year from US$6.9 billion in 2005 in a push to acquire brands and technology, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. "We expect to see significant growth, not only from the energy sector, but ambitious
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      • 87 13 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang yesterday announced a cabinet reshuffle, naming a trusted and experienced official to run his executive office, a move analysts said was aimed at helping his re-election next year. Mr Tsang appointed Commerce Secretary John Tsang as director
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      • 76 13 Reuters (MUMBAII Dr Reddy's laboratories said yesterday that its quarterly profit rose nearly 16 times over the year-ago period as the Indian drug maker bounced off a low base and saved on research costs. The Hyderabad-based company, India's only New York-listed drug maker. said
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      • 68 13 Bloomberg ITOKYO) Mitsubishi Motors Corp, Japan's fifth largest carmaker, may increase the sale of components to Malaysia's national carmaker Proton Holdings, Mitsubishi Motors president Osamu Masuko said. Proton is trying to find a partner to speed up the development of new models, stem its decline
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      • 79 13 Reuters [BRUSSELS) The world's biggest brewer Inßev on Monday agreed to buy China's Fujian Sedrin Brewery for 614 million euros (Ssl .2 billion), which will make it the second-largest brewer in the world's largest beer market. Inßev said it expected the acquisition of the largest
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    • 282 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia's energy minister yesterday said he would soon brief his Cabinet colleagues on a tariff review sought by the country's biggest power distributor. Tenaga Nasional Bhd. Tenaga wants a tariff rise to ease the financial burden of high oil prices, which
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    • 282 13 AFP. Reuters [KUALA LUMPUKI Malaysia's Hank Pembangunan yesterday launched the largest ever debt securities programme in the country worth about RM7 billion (Ss3 billion). "This landmark programme is indeed significant as it is the largest debt programme ever arranged by a financial institution, and
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    • 216 13 Reuters IJAKARTA) Indonesian police probing graft allegations have arrested a senior official from the state electricity firm PT Perusahaan Ustrik Negara (PLN). a police spokesman said yesterday. The high-profile arrest was the latest in an antigraft campaign launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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    • 117 13 'Globalise Your Brands Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights is our Business TRADEMARK name, words, brand, logo, figure, device, picture, slogan or any sign distinguishing your goods or services from that of your competitors indicating quality and acts as a badge of origin. Protection of these rights gives you a commercial
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 379 14 Earnings rise 28% to top 627b yuan on surging raw material prices |lil'!lJlN(i| China's biggest state-owned companies posted record profits of morn than 600 billion yuan (S$ 120.7 billion) last year, with many riding on the back of surging raw material prices, the South
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    • 335 14 Bloomberg IIIONC; KON(;| Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SI C) said it's probing the use of borrowed stock by investors in voting on proposals put U> shareholders. The comments came after the b'inancial Times yesterday reported on speculation that hedge
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    • 403 14 Reuters ISIIANOUAII China's State Reserves Bureau has forbidden its units from trading in a broad range of financial instruments as it paves the way for more accountability after racking up large losses on copper futures last year. They will not be allowed to use
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    • 390 14 AFP IMUMBAII India's largest private company Reliance Industries has announced plans to spend US$75O million on a network of hypermarkets and stores across the country. It also announced separate plans for its new subsidiary Reliance Petroleum to raise up to US$l.3 billion through a
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    • 134 14 Bloomberg IBKI.JINCI China's government called on Taiwan authorities to hold discussions to make annual Chinese New Year charter flights between the two a regular event and increase them U> include other holidays. Charter flights from 12 airlines, six from China and six from Taiwan, began
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    • 295 14 IMIJMHAI) The life sciences and healthcare services division of l ata Consultancy Services (TCS) is scouting for major acquisitions in the US, according to the Business Standard. The financial daily learnt that the company initiated talks with a few loading US-based software
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    • 399 14 Bloomberg IMUMHAII India's central bank says it has fined Citigroup Inc. ICICI Hank Ltd the nation's second-largest bank, in which Singapore investment agency Temasek Holdings has a stake and five other lenders for rule breaches that led to abuses in the
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 428 15 Move following Ford's lead aims to cut annual costs by 1.5b euros Reuters. AFP IFRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler will cut its bloated management by up to a fifth over the next three years, chopping around 6,000 jobs as a way to boost efficiency, the world's fifthbiggest carmaker said
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    • 575 15 NYT. Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Nike executives, who are fond of starting meetings by playing videos of Olympic runners triumphantly crossing the finish line, say that it takes 20 years to become an insider at the famously insular sneaker company. William D Perez, Philip H
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    • 232 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] United States property will capture 47 per cent of foreign global investment dollars in 2006, down from the previous year's 55 per cent, as real estate investors continue to spread their holdings globally, according to a survey released
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    • 270 15 Bloomberg [BEIJING] FedEx Corp, the second-largest US package shipping company, will buy out its joint venture partner in China for US$4OO million as the country's economic expansion boosts demand for the transport of goods. Memphis, Tennesseebased FedEx will pay Tianjin Datian
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    • 247 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO) Top executives of Google Inc have once again agreed to be paid annual salaries of US$l each in 2006, counting instead on stock options and grants of the company's volatile stock for their pay. In a regulatory
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    • 522 15 Reuters [SINGAPOREJ Asia's diesel market will look towards South America and Europe to absorb a growing surplus this year as Indian exports grow, while higher retail prices cut regional consumer demand and China limits imports. A rising US reliance on imported distillates will force
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 81 15 AFP [LOS ANGELES] A US computer hacker on Monday pleaded guilty to hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers, and infecting them with malicious software. In the first such prosecution of its kind, "botmaster" Jeanson Ancheta, 20, admitted infecting the computers with software that caused them
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      • 128 15 Reuters [SEOUL] A Citigroup investment fund was among 10 groups bidding for South Korea's Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co Ltd, eyeing a controlling stake with a market value over US$2 billion, a source said yesterday. CVC (Citigroup Venture Capital) Asia Pacific made its bid last
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      • 88 15 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Arcelor beat ThyssenKrupp in a costly bidding war for Dofasco yesterday when the Canadian steelmaker accepted its C 55.6 billion (557.9 billion) cash offer. In a joint statement with Arcelor, Dofasco said its board had unanimously agreed to accept the Cs7l per share offer
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      • 60 15 Reuters [CHICAGO] McDonald's Corp, the world's largest restaurant company, yesterday reported higher quarterly earnings on strong momentum in the US and improved performance in key European markets like France and Germany. Net income for the fourth quarter rose to U*****.5 million, or 48 cents per share,
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  • AVIATION
    • 598 16 US AIRLINES WOES Proposed contract would result in layoffs for 1.800 to 2,600 employees Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Northwest Airlines Corp bag handlers, airport workers and reservations agents will begin voting next week on a 12 per cent pay cut that vyould help the bankrupt
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    • 358 16 NYT [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines will outsource more maintenance work and close an Atlanta hangar as part of its restructuring. The ailing carrier told employees on Monday that it will cut 800 to 1,000 maintenance jobs by April 1 mostly aircraft mechanics through
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    • 290 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China National Aviation Co, the biggest shareholder of Air Macau Ltd, and billionaire Stanley Ho's Shun Tak Holdings Ltd will set up a discount carrier in Macau, the second budget airline to be based in the former Portuguese colony,
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    • 363 16 Decision is likely by middle of the year, says planemaker AFP [SHANGHAI] Airbus said yesterday it was close to a decision on whether to build an assembly line for its medium-range A 320 jets in China. "Airbus and Chinese authorities are cooperating closely
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    • 229 16 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Shandong Airlines Co, partly owned by China's largest international airline, said it expects to post a loss for 2005, as delayed delivery of two Boeing Co aircraft and bad weather disrupted operations in the fourth quarter. Its shares fell. The carrier, which is
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    • 128 16 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), Japan's second-largest carrier, said it may set up a domestic low-cost carrier before 2009 to compete with Skymark Airlines Co. "We have to take measures to compete with lowfare carriers," president Mineo Yamamoto said. "We were
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  • SHIPPING
    • 1357 17 Easy Cruise targets younger travellers with low prices and freedom to get off and on at ports Bloomberg [LONDON] On Stelios Hajiloannou's cruise ship clean sheets cost extra. Mr Haji-loannou, founder of Luton, England-based Easy Jet pic, Europe's No 2 low-cost airline,
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    • 924 17  -  STRAIT TALK By DAVID HUGHES PORTS have been in the headlines in recent weeks. PSA's approach to UK parts and ferries company P&O, coming just as Dubai Ports World (DP World) looked increasingly secure in its friendly bid, has kept even business journalists who normally have to
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    • 404 17 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's sec-ond-largest shipbuilder, more than trebled its fourth-quarter profit from a year earlier as prices of vessels started recovering from a decade low. Daewoo Shipbuilding posted a net income of 31.9 billion
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    • 125 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Russia's second-largest oil port, Novorossiisk, was closed to shipping for a fifth consecutive day because of high winds and snow in the Black Sea, local sjiip agents said. Northeast winds as fast as 83 kilometres an hour buffeted the harbour, creating
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 527 18 EDITORIAL ONE of the world's largest makers of cast-iron pipes was also, not so long ago, one of the most dangerous employers in America. The McWane group of companies prospered through hard-nosed management practices that apparently relegated even the smallest federally mandated safety precautions below an
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    • 748 18  -  THE BOTTOM LINE FRANK CHING CHINA Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, in keeping with tradition, went on an eight-day tour of Africa on Jan 11, during which he visited six countries. For well over a decade now, his first overseas trip of the year has
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    • 1302 18  -  Last year, Tata companies invested US$1 billion in overseas acquisitions and joint ventures YOGI AGGARWAL ONE of India's largest and most respected business houses is all set to become a global powerhouse. The US$l7 billion Tata group, with businesses as diverse
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    • 1791 19  -  His low interest rate policies resulted in a prosperity built on borrowing By NELL HENDERSON LATWP Beverly wilmore is bracing herself for the tuition bills about to start rolling in after her daughter, 19, starts at Towson University this week. But she is
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    • 1032 19  -  By SARA WEBB Reuters AS SINGAPORE'S Temasek Holdings makes billion-dollar investments in banks, telecoms and ports, the state-owned investor not its listed companies is emerging as the driver of Singapore's overseas expansion. On Monday, state-owned Temasek and a group of Thai
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  • MOTORING
    • 902 22  -  They are estimated to have made profits of up to $45m, reports SAMUEL EE SAMUEL EE THE motor insurance industry shifted back into top gear in 2005 with estimated profits of up to $45 million, or more than four times 2004's the year it returned
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    • 340 22 WITH the motor insurance industry registering profits of between $35 million and $45 million, does it mean that motorists can expect premiums to be adjusted downwards soon? Market leader NTUC Income said its motor premiums were cut by 6 per cent on Jan 1, 2006,
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    • 445 22  -  By SAMUEL EE GENERAL Motors, the world's biggest carmaker, may be struggling at home, but elsewhere in the world, it is witnessing record sales, driven mainly by the Chevrolet brand. Even as it faces falling demand and profitability in the United States, the giant carmaker
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  • SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL 100
    • 1227 23  -  While global heavyweight NOL is planning to enhance its supply chain services, regional player PIL is bracing to test new waters, report CONRAD TAN and MATTHEW PHAN CONRAD TAN, MATTHEW PHAN TWO of Singapore's largest international companies are in the shipping business, but that's where the
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    • 1013 24  -  It is exploring more growth areas with the help of partners as the Singapore brokerage market has plateaued, reports MATTHEW PHAN MATTHEW PHAN THERE are only six financial service-relat-ed companies on the Singapore International 100 list this year, and five of them are at
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    • 434 24  -  By MATTHEW PHAN THE Singapore International 100 was started in 2004 to recognise and celebrate Singapore's top companies in terms of overseas revenue. As such, the rankings reflect the types of companies that are market-makers abroad and the geographical footprint that these firms
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    • 625 24 Winners post 21 jump in total overseas revenue SINGAPORE companies are making headway growing their external wing, with the Singapore International 100 winners showing a 21 per cent jump in total overseas revenue to $92.2 billion this year, from $76 billion in the previous year. South-east Asia was the largest
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    • 832 25  -  Hong Leong Asia's CEO Teo Tong Kooi tells NANDE KHIN why simply building on production capacity in China is not enough NANDE KHIN TODAY, most of Hong Leong Asia's revenue 91 per cent to be precise may come from its overseas operations, but it was not
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    • 1190 26  -  Most companies are still unable to address concerns employees have about being sent abroad, MARIO FERRARO explains MARIO FERRARO LOOK at any organisation's mission statement or annual report, and you will probably find a sentence describing their employees as their "most valuable asset". Whether or
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    • 989 26  -  Right from the beginning an investor must ensure he has professional help in nis business dealings with the Chinese, advises ROBSON LEE ROBSON LEE THE experience of mahy foreign investors in China shows that careful due diligence often determines whether the seeds of
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    • 1182 28  -  The Singapore company, be it a regional or global player, must adopt certain strategies to overcome pitfalls when venturing abroad, NITIN PANGARKAR elaborates NITIN PANGARKAR THE Singapore International 100 companies, while diverse, can be broadly classified into two groups based on their strategic aims: Aspiring Global
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    • 887 29  -  LIM GEK KHIM sheds light on M&A tax pitfalls in China that could trip up the unwary investor LIM CEK KHIM CHINA'S mergers and acquisition (M&A) landscape is burgeoning, as multinationals scour investment opportunities in the fast-growing economy. While there are immense opportunities for
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    • 1335 30  -  KULWANT SINGH and ANDREW DELIOS evaluate the performance of Singapore firms abroad using three other criteria KULWAMT SINGH, ANDREW DELIOS Till- Singapore) International 100 many outstanding achievements by Singapore firms in growing their sales in foreign markets. Yet. foreign sales are a limited measure
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    • 1195 27 100 The Singapore International 100 Ranking is organised by International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore) with DP Information as the ranking organisation, and in collaboration with The Business w Times, Singapore Business Federation and Singapore Management University. It recognises Singapore's M j top 100 companies ranked by the highest overseas revenue,
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    • 1158 35  -  COMMENTARY One step the CPF could take to encourage prudent choices is to remove restrictions on fixed-income investments GENEVIEVE CUA Personal Finance Editor UNLESS you are in your 40s when retirement becomes a distinct prospect, investing for the so-called golden years may sound like a
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